

«In Palermo, we all have a constellation of mourning in which the stars are the people killed by Cosa Nostra». Beginning with accounts of the Eighties and the bombings of ‘92, around which he has constructed an absorbing biographical structure, Davide Enia paints «an intimate and collective self-portrait» of a community forced to live with the constant manifestation of evil.

Corvidae
Sguardi di specie
How is our species seen through the eyes of the other inhabitants of the Earth? Is a future more sustainable than our present possible? With a comical and disenchanted outlook, a flock of mechanical crows – animated by Marta Cuscunà – examines the possibility of a new form of harmony between nature and progress.

In the award-winning production by D’Agostin, Marta Ciappina invites us, through dance, words, music and images, to reflect on the sense of memory and the relationship with the past through histories both great and small.

A moving and visionary masterpiece by Pedro Lemebel, Ho paura torero, is on stage in the theatrical version directed by Claudio Longhi. Lino Guanciale is the Fairy on the Corner, a sensitive and passionate transvestite, in a play that walks the line between dream and history, between eros and politics.

Paris 2025. A prestigious fashion house receives a special order; prepare a wedding dress for an English princess. From France to India, Caroline Guiela Nguyen connects the process of creation for a precious dress to the lives of tailors, lace-makers and embroiderers, exploring the secret processes and the dynamics that lie beneath the surface in the world of high fashion.

A journey in the name of Dante and the unique cultural heritage represented by the Divine Comedy: Toni Servillo presents a show that takes on Dante’s work through an original interpretation by one of the most important contemporary Italian writers, Giuseppe Montesano.

«Re Chicchinella – explains Emma Dante, introducing her new exploration of the poetry of Giambattista Basile – tells the story of a king that is ill, alone and hopeless, surrounded by a loveless and cold family that has just one interest: receiving one golden egg a day.»

Ritratto dell’artista da morto
(France ’41 – Argentina ’78)
What is the relationship between the disappearance of a political dissident during the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1978 and that of a Jewish pianist in France in 1941? A blend of autobiography and fiction, historical research and police investigation, Davide Carnevali stage a reflection on the barbarian aspects of the totalitarianism that characterised the entire twentieth century.

Tre modi per non morire
Baudelaire, Dante, i Greci
Based on the works of Giuseppe Montesano, Toni Servillo leads the audience on a journey in three stages that is an antidote to the stagnation of thought, the non-life that tends to swallow us up, a way to rediscover the words that an actor expresses with their entire body and mind, to nourish their and our interiority.

A singular nocturnal exercise exploring the ghosts and the fears that we are made of, Uccellini – a show by the award-winning ensemble lacasadargilla – examines couples, couples of siblings, couples of twins, and couples of partners. From conflicting views on how to lend sense to the world, to relationships and losses. And above all, what lies on the fine line in between.